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84 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump

Via the NY Times / June 3, 2019

• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html

• https://twitter.com/nytclimate/status/1136094068914774016

Tracking the Environmental Regulation Rollbacks of the Trump Presidency

• https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/regulatory-rollback-tracker/

Environmental & Energy Law Program / Harvard Law School

Real-world legal analysis for today’s environmental and energy challenges

We provide real-world legal analysis for today’s environmental and energy challenges. We promote creative problem solving and productive engagement through rigorous legal research, and outreach to decision-makers, stakeholders, media, and the public. Our work covers the following issue areas:

Environmental Governance: including Tracking Environmental Deregulation and Tracking the Undermining of EPA’s Mission

Electricity Law and Policy

Private Sector Governance & Innovation

State & Local Climate Strategies

Decision-makers in these areas are faced with the challenges of technological advances, restructured markets, and climate change. These challenges require innovative, nimble responses that are grounded in a thoughtful policy framework. The Environment & Energy law project at Harvard works with policymakers, advocacy organizations, industry groups, and other stakeholders, to contribute legal scholarship that has real world impacts.

Science Under Attack

• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/climate/trump-administration-war-on-science.html

WASHINGTON — In just three years, the Trump administration has diminished the role of science in federal policymaking while halting or disrupting research projects nationwide, marking a transformation of the federal government whose effects, experts say, could reverberate for years.

Political appointees have shut down government studies, reduced the influence of scientists over regulatory decisions and in some cases pressured researchers not to speak publicly. The administration has particularly challenged scientific findings related to the environment and public health opposed by industries such as oil drilling and coal mining. It has also impeded research around human-caused climate change, which President Trump has dismissed despite a global scientific consensus...

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